Word Forms Worksheet: Noun, Verb, Adjective

Vocabulary lesson 26: Word families · Set 265 · 40 questions

Word tip (The gap decides the form): Endings help: -tion, -sion, -ness, -ity, -ence → noun; -ful, -ive, -ous, -able, -ent → adjective; -ly → adverb; -ify, en- → verb. Look at the gap: after a, the, your → noun; after will, can, to → verb; before a noun or after is → adjective; telling how something is done → adverb. Read the sentence with your word in it to check.

1. 1.Which word is an adjective? (a) danger (b) dangerous (c) dangerously (d) endanger
2. 2.Which word is a verb? (a) difference (b) differently (c) different (d) differ
3. 3.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) dangerously
4. 4.Which word is a verb? (a) protect (b) protection (c) protective (d) protectively
5. 5.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) successfully (b) success (c) successful (d) succeed
6. 6.Choose the right form: Everyone looked at the dancer with ___. (a) admirably (b) admirable (c) admiration (d) admire
7. 7.Which word is a verb? (a) beautiful (b) beautify (c) beauty (d) beautifully
8. 8.Which word is an adverb? (a) invention (b) invent (c) inventive (d) inventively
9. 9.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imaginatively (b) imagination (c) imaginative (d) imagine
10. 10.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decisive (b) decisively (c) decide (d) decision
11. 11.Which word is an adverb? (a) admiration (b) admirably (c) admire (d) admirable
12. 12.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) invent (b) inventive (c) inventively (d) invention
13. 13.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuade (b) persuasively (c) persuasive (d) persuasion
14. 14.Which word is an adverb? (a) persuade (b) persuasion (c) persuasive (d) persuasively
15. 15.Which word is an adjective? (a) admiration (b) admirably (c) admirable (d) admire
16. 16.Which word is an adjective? (a) describe (b) description (c) descriptive (d) descriptively
17. 17.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) successful (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) success
18. 18.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructively (c) destructive (d) destroy
19. 19.Which word is a noun? (a) admirable (b) admire (c) admiration (d) admirably
20. 20.Which word is a noun? (a) purify (b) pure (c) purely (d) purity
21. 21.Which word is an adverb? (a) purely (b) purity (c) purify (d) pure
22. 22.Choose the right form: Close your eyes and ___ you are on the moon. (a) imaginative (b) imaginatively (c) imagination (d) imagine
23. 23.Choose the right form: The storm caused great ___ in the village. (a) destroy (b) destruction (c) destructively (d) destructive
24. 24.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decision (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decide
25. 25.Choose the right form: Trees ___ the soil from washing away. (a) protection (b) protective (c) protectively (d) protect
26. 26.Which word is an adjective? (a) decision (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decide
27. 27.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admiration (b) admirably (c) admirable (d) admire
28. 28.Which word is an adjective? (a) succeed (b) success (c) successful (d) successfully
29. 29.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) differ (b) difference (c) differently (d) different
30. 30.Which word is an adverb? (a) successful (b) succeed (c) success (d) successfully
31. 31.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) description (b) descriptively (c) descriptive (d) describe
32. 32.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attractive (b) attractively (c) attraction (d) attract
33. 33.Which word is a noun? (a) attract (b) attractively (c) attractive (d) attraction
34. 34.Which word is a verb? (a) dangerously (b) danger (c) dangerous (d) endanger
35. 35.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) differently (b) different (c) differ (d) difference
36. 36.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beautiful (b) beautifully (c) beauty (d) beautify
37. 37.Which word is an adverb? (a) simple (b) simplicity (c) simplify (d) simply
38. 38.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) successfully (b) success (c) succeed (d) successful
39. 39.Which word is a noun? (a) successfully (b) succeed (c) successful (d) success
40. 40.Which word is a verb? (a) inventive (b) invent (c) invention (d) inventively

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